# yem
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Vietnamese yếm, from Proto-Vietic *ʔiɛmʔ (“breastplate”), from Old Chinese 裺 (/*qromʔ/, /*qoms/, “bib worn by infants”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈiːəm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈiəm/
* Rhymes: -iːəm

#### Noun

yem (plural yems)
* (clothing) A Vietnamese bodice with a halterneck and a V-shaped bottom worn by women on the torso, originally as an underbodice and now also as an outer garment.
    Hypernyms: bib, bodice, haltertop
    (underbodice): Synonyms: (both in Chinese contexts) dudou, tu-tou
    (outer garment): Synonym: ao yem

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

See hyem.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /jɛm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛm

#### Adverb

yem (not comparable)
* (Geordie) Alternative spelling of hyem (“home”)

### References

* ↑ Bill Griffiths (2004) “hame”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN, page 73.

### Further reading

* yếm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

By surface analysis, ye +‎ -m.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

yem (definite accusative yemi, plural yemlər)
* fodder

#### Derived terms

* yemləmək

### Further reading

* “yem” in Obastan.com.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

yem
* (Early Middle English) Alternative form of em (“uncle”)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

yem
* (Northern, northern East Midlands) Alternative form of þem (“them”)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

yem
* Alternative form of yeme (“attention, care”)

## Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یم (yem, “food, ration, bait; primer (for a gun)”), from Proto-Turkic *yēm, *yē- (“to eat”).
* Azerbaijani yem
* Bashkir ем (yem)
* Chagatai ییم (yem)
* Karakhanid یِیمْ (yem)
* Kazakh жем (jem)
* Kumyk ем (yem)
* Kyrgyz жем (jem)
* Nogai ем (yem)
* Southern Altai јем (ǰem)
* Tatar җим (cim), cim
* Uyghur يەم (yem)
* Uzbek yem

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjem/
* Hyphenation: yem

### Noun

yem (definite accusative yemi, plural yemler)
* feed, fodder
    Synonym: yeygi
* bait (substance used to allure animals)
* (figuratively) bait (anything which allures)

#### Derived terms

* balık yemi
* kuş yemi
* yem olmak
* yem torbası
* yemlemek
* yemlik

#### Related terms

* yemek
* yemiş
* yiyecek

### References

* ↑ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2209
* ↑ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1358
* ↑ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “یم”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1554
* ↑ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “2 yé:m”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 934
* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yem”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jē-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

### Further reading

* “yem”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yem”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5285